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Was Richard Dawkins wrong about memes? | Massimo Pigliucci, Hilary Lawson, Joanna Bryson

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is There Anything Out There That We Can't Construct in Reality?

Every intelligent being or int intelligent entity is a modelii. It's a set of abstractions, a set of pe prea pre expectations that allow it to convert the current context into some form of action. But do you think there isn't anything out there somewhere that all these things are running around on? You don't take up an idealist position of saying, it's all in our heads. That's not what's going on in terms of a relationship between our models and the world. We find ways of making paternts that enable as to intervene in this stuff, which is other than us. The world is not a human characteristic. It's something other.

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